This doesn’t change the fact that Congress never authorized spending YOUR hard-earned taxpayer dollars on Trump’s golden ballroom.
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117 years ago · 1909
“Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure or destroy any feature of this National Monument, or to locate or settle upon any of the…”
— Bill Taft
100 years ago · 1926
“While efforts should be made constantly to reduce fire destruction to a minimum, in pursuance of a well established precedent, one week is set aside each year during which the…”
— Calvin Coolidge
97 years ago · 1929
“So much of the order of February 27, 1914, creating Power Site reserve No. 421, as affects lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked:”
— Herbert Hoover
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